Read A Day of Faces here. Read this specific chapter here. Read all the writing notes here. A Day Of Faces grew out of a simple, daft “what if?” concept: what would happen if everybody born on the same day looked the same? It’s since become something a bit more Read more…
These things take a while. According to my revision log, I started writing Millennium Surfing in January 2013. That is months and months earlier than I remembered. The first draft was completed in July 2014, making it an absurdly long gestation period for a short story – albeit quite a long one. Read more…
According to this page on Wikipedia, most genre awards classify a novelette as being between 7,500 and 17,500 words, while a novella goes from there up to about 40,000 words. Presumably anything below 7,500 is a simple old short story. Going by this definition, the short story I just finished writing, Read more…
I’m quite excited about this one. Set roughly in the same universe as Wikimoku, Millennium Surfing is an enormous leap into humanity’s future, courtesy of a jaded sort-of time traveler. It employs only slight dubious science to catapult the protagonist through the entire future history of mankind, which, as you Read more…